I-35 Austin, TX

I-35 in Greater Austin from FM 1431 in Round Rock to Slaughter Lane in South Austin, filmed in the early morning because that is basically the only traffic-free time along this route.

[@AmericanRoads]

Beautiful. The early morning light makes the whole atmosphere much more pleasant.

[@InterstateJD]

Thanks, and I agree. I've been on this road at pretty much every literal time of day at some point in my life, and this road at 7 am is a whole lot nicer than it will be for the next 14 or so hours on any given day.

[@EricHegwer]

There are plans to put a large part of I-35 underground near the downtown area - basically inside a tunnel with a park above ground.

[@asrr62]

ill believe it after its built!

[@schwenda3727]

Almost a million people?! Was that figure even 1/3 of that 15-25 years ago???

[@falynnworld2084]

Schwenda that's why I left Houston Texans and move to Las Vegas and I'm loving it 700000 people live in Vegas and then the rest are tourists

[@CheeseMasterSports]

Hope you have a merry Christmas and a happy New year!

[@InterstateKS]

If you have the chance, it would be interesting if you did SH-130 on the southern two segments.

[@InterstateJD]

If I had the footage I totally would... but I don't think I can top ScrewdUPClickV2's work anyway. 85 mph is still in the future for me...

[@InterstateKS]

I think your animations are better than his, personally. Also, he has not uploaded in a while.

[@InterstateJD]

I was referring to his specific video of both those segments :P It's not a huge priority for me unfortunately, but I'd like to drive and film it eventually. Im lucky enough to still have a lot of projects left . thanks!

[@nairblooc]

4:23 on your right I think the lights cut out

[@angeII]

yep also don’t go near this highway i’m downtown rn it’s crazy

[@melsmith245]

over the course of 20+ years, how many hundreds of times I have made this exact trip. very interesting video man. thanks for posting, even though I found it 6 years after it's upload 😎

[@MrSniperFromMars]

Hey JD. I saw your Little Rock videos about a year ago, and ever since I've been interested in road-timelapse videos. I made my first one today, could you check it out? It'd be much appreciated man. Keep up the great work!

[@InterstateJD]

It's way late but I had a look. Other than the typical freewayjim group's collective "get the hood out of the frame" response I'd say you're doing a fine job for just 2 videos. Of course, as you make more everything will come more and more naturally.

[@MrSniperFromMars]

Thanks for taking the time to look and I really value your input. Unfortunately the dash cam I have has a wide angle lens so getting the hood out of the shot is pretty much impossible right now. If my channel gains more popularity I'd look at purchasing a camera. Thanks so much!

[@InterstateJD]

you know, use whatever works! Nothing wrong with that approach then.

[@74ryanwolf]

Austin, TX with the tallest interchange in the world?? I can't manage to find any information on that

[@rjc6466]

I believe the producer is specifying the tallest point from the lanes of SH 71 up to the tallest flyover for that interchange. SH 71 is depressed below ground level creating the ~122 ft. The High Five on the other hand is ~120 from ground level.

[@_rafaelitoooo]

Can you always put a map at the beginning

[@zachmatt3]

Thanks for the nice video. What I don't understand is that in the Houston and Dallas metros, freeways expansions (and new freeways) occur at a rapid pace, while in Austin things happen at a snail's pace. Must have something to do with TXDOT's priorities, which I haven't figured out. All of Austin's freeways are a nightmare, especially I-35 and Mopac.

[@plorsomnia]

Well Austin only has one major interstate running through it which is odd to me and is less than 1/3 the size of Houston and Dallas which are growing fast. Austin is also a fast growing city but the one time I went there I got to say that their freeway system is pretty pathetic for its size and significance and also for being a city in Texas IMHO so I agree that more should be done there. Maybe because of lack of sprawl and generally just being overshadowed by Texas's 3 largest cities?

[@zachmatt3]

Austin actually has lots of different freeways and a large number of tollways, but it takes forever for them to get built. And the designs are almost uniformly terrible for such a heavy traffic city, which I think we agree on.

[@michaelgenerali5336]

The traffic problem has nothing to do with TXDOT. It has to do with the Austin City Council. Go back to the 1970s. Austin was a sleepy college town with the state capital. The city council wanted to keep it that way. They thought that if they didn't build the highways, the people and larger businesses would stay away. Well, it didn't happen. Still, as the city population started to explode, the city refused to allow expansion of the existing roadways, and even wouldn't allow building of new highways. When the city does permit a nice highway to help move traffic, it isn't long before there are traffic lights up all over the place, and there again is nothing but traffic jams. I have lived here since 1979, and I moved north of Austin. I have no need to go to Austin, and avoid it as much as possible. I just got tired of sitting in traffic all the time.

[@bravesbuckeyesfan31]

I think that Austin would eventually need to have more interstates that go to Downtown Austin or around the city of Austin. There are routes, but they might have to evolve to interstates to accommodate more people in the Austin metro area.

[@litchaos4427]

Hudaman my mom spends 2 hours in traffic on 183 and 35

[@asrr62]

nope not enough room. when they make new highways they are all tolled!! so then people all cram into the free roads and thats what creates a mess.

[@forceinfinity]

And to add to the complications, many of those toll roads are ran by private companies and more often than not, the have clauses in their contracts that would prevent the state from adding any freeway routes that "competes" with the toll road

[@ctaz8746]

My hometown! #ATX

[@ryleyoconnor8010]

Typo, 7:00 am to be precise

[@asrr62]

view @ 4:43 from upperdeck is incredible even though its so badly engineered. rly who got away with engineering it and approved it! money well wasted!

[@johnd4348]

Where's all the traffic. I never see the roads that empty

[@asrr62]

it was probably really early on a sunday morning.

[@brysongraves2926]

so you did this after the I35E vid

[@SlowedByCinnamxn]

+Bryson Graves, Yes

[@JackOBryan]

Awesome video you have here sir. I was there in Austin just a few days earlier myself and created a video from downtown to Round Rock in the evening time during rush hour but it is no near as cool as this one. It's good, but, WOW! Everything seemed perfect about it. I'm not saying all this just to get people to see my videos but, hey, I could use just little boost on views and subscribers. I love time-lapse but I just don't have time to get out much except in my local "boring" region of Texas but that's not stopping me. Watching great videos like this one really motivates me. I subbed and WILL share, regardless if you even LOOK at my channel. Keep it up!

[@anshulbellamkonda8244]

I hope you don't mind me requesting but could you do the interchange between I-35E 35W

[@plorsomnia]

One of my favorite videos of yours. We stayed in Austin at the Courtyard Mariott on Parmer (you can see it on the right at 2:43) and didn't get to explore much. Pretty cool city from what I've seen.

[@anshulbellamkonda8244]

I-JD I love that 2x interchange near downtown really great. view

[@FreewayFranks]

Awesome video ! :D

[@InterstateJD]

Thanks :)

[@doggoman6333]

We are at exit 254 at Round Rock

[@brianwilson4148]

Good video editing !! really good!

[@ehhhh5246]

Can you go to San Antonio please

[@TransCanadaPhil]

Wow I can't believe how many Motel 6's there are in that area from around the 4 min mark.

[@InterstateJD]

Lmao I actually stayed in a motel 6 the night before I filmed this, thanks for watching.

[@TransCanadaPhil]

Did you know that the reason they are called "motel 6" is because when they opened it only cost $6 a night to stay at them? Now that's a nice rate :-D

[@InterstateJD]

Lol, blame inflation. But back then they had coin operated black and white TVs in the rooms as well. Motel 6 certainly is a decent chain though, especially for the price, with fairly consistent locations

[@donavanjohnson409]

I been to Austin TX

[@dotdriveontransportation1687]

I never been to Austin in 6 years. I want to go back down there one day

[@InterstateJD]

It has no doubt changed a lot :) If you get the chance you should head down to SA as well.

[@MultiBlueblanket]

Heck, Austin and San Antonio might become one huge city along the I-35 corridor. Austin's sprawl goes south to San Marcos, and San Antonio's to New Braunfels, with only 15 miles between them. San Antonio-Austin Metroplex?